Improvement in corn-planters



ml tant @anni NATHAN M. lBOWERS, OF l KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI.

Letters .Patent No. 88,508, dated .March 30, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Beit known that I, NATHAN M. POWERS, of Kirksville, Adair county, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements upon Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the corn-planter, complete;

Figure 2, a perspective view of the markingovheels; andV y l Figure 3 represents the corn-dropper and drill.

The nature of my invention consists in a corn-planter, constructed so as to drop the corn in longitudinal rows, equidistant from each other, and mark upon the ground, at the same time, transverse rows of the same distance, whereby is avoided the labor of previous marking.

In the accompanying drawings- Z represents the frame of the machine.

B C, the markers, which rest on the face of thc marking-wheels, A f

D is a cog-wheel, placed upon the shaft of the wheels A A.

N is a smaller cog-wheel, working in the `cog-wheel D, and is provided with the spul' Eon one of its sides.

This spur 'operates the shaft F, by means of the spurs H H, in the forked end of the same.

The other end of the shaft Fis attached to the dropping-bar, S.

V is a bearing, to keep the bar S in position, and

W W are wheels to assist the locomotion of the planter.

The operation of the machine is as follows:

On moving the machine, the marking-wheels A A revolve, causing the markers B B to mark the ground,

at certain distances, for the transverse rows. v

By the revolution of the wheels A A, the cog-wheel D is revolved on the cog-Wheel N, causing its spur E to operate alternately on the spurs H H of the shaft ,by Letters Patent, is-

The markinglwheels A A, markers B B, shaft F, cogwheels D and N, dropper-bar S, rods 1 I, valves J J and R R, and drills M M, when combined, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein shown and described.

NATHAN M. POWERS.

litncsses FRANK L. FERRIS, LUoINnA D. Feuers. 

